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Default Hey Spareparts...

Made progress on trim tabs today...all thats left is hook up hydraulic lines and run some wires...

Some questions...

*What size fuse will this unit need?

*I'll be cutting excess off hydraulic lines...do each of the lines need to be the same length?

*How do I bleed these puppies?

*Do I use Transmission fluid?


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Default trim tabs

Hey Reel! You put'in hydraulic tabs on?
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cut the hoses with a razor blade, cut it straight and square. If there is a hydraulic supplier near by, they sell a smal plastic hose cutter for a few bucks that works real good. It shouldn't matter if the hoses are different lengths, but I've found you usually trap more air in the long hose, so it takes a little longer time to react( you probably wouldn't have noticed if I hadn't said anything). If you could get 100% of the air out, it won't make any differnce. transmisiion fluid is fine. And you don't have to bleed them, I've done it before( makes a mess), but they usually bleed them selves out after some use unless you run the hoses higher than the pump(traps air)

this should answer most of your questions

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Fill with tranny fluid and lift up and down a few times, they will bleed themselfs. You will hear the difference.
After that watch the fluid as mine went down a bit after a few runs, just top off as needed, took to fills after the install to get it to stay full.
My lines are of different leanths so that will not hurt them any.
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Hey Reel! You put'in hydraulic tabs on?
Yeah...you thinkin' about tabs?...

SPARE and MJ...thanks for the comebacks...good advise all...pump is a little below the top of the cylinders, but I'll be able to sit it out temporarily to bleed...and Spare I hear ya on the square cuts...I'll ride out to Northern Hydraulics and see what they got...

Does anybody know what size fuse the pump requires?...
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Never dawned on me to look on the freakin' motor and see what amp draw it is


Not to mention it tells you 20amp in the FAQ you attached...DUH...
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you a little slow today?
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you a little slow today?

Whadda ya mean "today?"...
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